Traditional Chinese Typefaces

Question

I was looking for a cursive calligraphy traditional Chinese font which has a 萬 (ten thousand) character which is in the style of that on a standard Taiwanese or Cantonese Mahjong tiles. So far I have only found non-cursive fonts.

Answer 1

You might try one of the calligraphic Traditional Chinese fonts from here or here. For instance, a sample of Senty Wen (which is only gratis for personal use).

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{newunicodechar}

\newfontfamily\hantfont{SentyWen}[
  Scale=MatchUppercase,
  Script=CJK,
  Language={Chinese Traditional} ]

\newunicodechar{^^^^842c}{{\hantfont\symbol{"842C}}} % 萬

\begin{document}
萬 
\end{document}

You can also give it an alias if you prefer.

\newcommand\texttenthousand{{\hantfont\symbol{"842C}}}
\newunicodechar{^^^^842c}{\texttenthousand\relax} % 萬

This template can easily be modified to test any glyphs from any font.

Answer 2

Just to add some more info to the excellent answer by Davislor, I.PenCrane-B and I.Ngaan are calligraphic fonts released under a GPL License (download files include both GPL2.0 and GPL3.0) so they are available for commercial use.

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
%Other font features aren't working with (Xe/Lua)TeX
\newfontfamily\TestA{I.PenCrane-B}[Scale=MatchUppercase]
\newfontfamily\TestB{I.Ngaan}[Scale=MatchUppercase]
\begin{document}
\textcolor[rgb]{0.8,0,0}{{\TestA 萬} {\TestB 萬}}
\end{document}